Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.

Fri Oct 11 18:13:57 UTC 2013

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:41:46 -0700, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> said:

    > you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is)
    > providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else.

Yes, that's another part of the conversation, encouraging the use of
an IGP, which has been a source of trouble for them because of broken
wireless bridges from a very commonly used vendor that randomly eat
multicast packets, so it's not as straightforward as it should be.

    > evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that
    > could be handled better.

Ok, fair enough. My first experience with PBR was as a summer intern in
the mid-1990s who inherited management of a large ATM network that had
a big VPN-esque thing built entirely that way and with no
documentation. It certainly felt evil at the time. ;)

-w

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